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Lyle Dumont and his wife, Helen, share a laugh as they look over the new 40-by-90 foot Lionel model train layout at their Dumont Museum south of Sigourney. Photo was taken Friday, Nov. 30, 2012.
A model train makes its way down the tracks at Kent Oram’s Las Vegas home. (Ronda Churchill/View) A TV plays near a drive-in movie set-up included in Kent Oram’s model train layout.
MADISON — Dr. Alan Friedler loves spending countless hours perfecting his model train layout. And this is a passion he never outgrew from when he was a kid. An onlooker might feel like a kid ...
A freight train chugs past the blast furnaces of the once-mighty Bethlehem Steel, taking visitors at the Lehigh & Keystone Valley Model Railroad Museum in Bethlehem on a journey back to Americ… ...
NEEDHAM, Mass. — Peter Dolimpio is the owner and creator of a massive double HO Scale Model Railroad layout in the basement of his home in Leominster, Massachusetts. Both this layout and others ...
Two-year old Luke Baxtrom was one of the first to view the layout. Michael Reardon of Chicagoland T-Trak brought several modules to the model train show, including a “caboose hotel.” ...
MOBILE, Alabama -- The Great Train Expo, a model railroading show, returns this weekend to the Greater Gulf State Fairgrounds, at 1035 North Cody Road in Mobile. The event will be held from 10 a.m ...
Kughn kept his $3.5 million private collection of model trains, cars, vintage automobiles and other antiques and collectibles at Carail, a 50,000-square-foot museum at 17455 Grand River Ave.
Trains take over 1,000 square feet of the Atlanta Botanical Garden when the Holiday Model Train Show comes to town. In its seventh year, the train show features six trains and one trolley that run ...
Last year, 350 people visited Moylan’s train layout. The traffic was so heavy on his small, no-outlet street that he asked neighbors to keep their vehicles in driveways to free up street parking.
Greensburg veteran of D-Day, Battle of the Bulge enjoyed creating art, model train layouts Jeff Himler | Sunday, March 19, 2023 12:01 a.m.